Forward-Deployed Engineer at R2 integrating financial solutions for SMBs in Latin America. Collaborating with partners to enhance integrations and optimize data-driven deployments.
Responsibilities
Partner integrations: Design, implement, and maintain integrations between R2’s platform and partner APIs, data pipelines, and backend systems.
Data-driven deployments: Gain controlled access to live partner data to identify edge cases, optimize decisioning models, and ensure data integrity and compliance.
Rapid prototyping: Translate customer needs into working software by building and deploying lightweight APIs, ETL jobs, or infrastructure changes.
Problem ownership: Act as the technical point of contact for new deployments — debugging systems, monitoring performance, and resolving production issues.
Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and backend engineers to tailor our systems to each partner’s unique context.
Operational excellence: Create deployment playbooks, data access protocols, and documentation to scale secure and efficient integrations across the region.
Requirements
6-8+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or data engineering, ideally in fintech or SaaS integrations.
Deep experience with coding languages such as: Python, Go, Node.js, RESTful APIs, and SQL.
Strong understanding of data systems, access control, and secure data handling (experience with GCP, AWS, or Snowflake is a plus).
Proven ability to work directly with external engineering teams, translating business and technical needs into robust integrations.
Comfortable debugging production systems and working with sensitive data under strict compliance constraints.
A self-starter who enjoys autonomy, thrives in ambiguous environments, and takes full ownership of mission-critical outcomes.
Passionate about financial inclusion and technology’s ability to reshape access to capital in Latin America.
Nice to have Experience with financial APIs, underwriting systems, or risk infrastructure.
Familiarity with data modeling, ETL, or event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub).
Fluency in Spanish and English for seamless collaboration with partners across Latin America.
Exposure to customer-embedded roles at technology firms (Palantir, Stripe, or API-based startups.
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